For some reason I find myself extremely tired tonight. And all goofed up on what day it is today as I got myself situated in the family room to watch "Selling New York"....but it's only Wednesday today! Now I must do this again tomorrow night after the Outreach meeting. How did I get so confused?? Now must I go to a Home???
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Suzanne and I met for dinner at Panera as usual but we both ate lighter meals than normal. She had been at a baseball game in the afternoon, right from work with her boss and other staff members. Nice! She had eaten at work, they did a bbq and shared dishes before going to the ball park, all within walking distance. Cool! It was good to sit and talk before heading to choir. We had a good rehearsal singing from the Supplement and our choir anthems, but not so much with the LAPPY. Some of us have an 'issue' with using it, except that some of the songs have been used by our choir in the past in the form of sheet music. Somehow it's different that way....
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Today I was still giddy with excitement about seeing my friends last night and then had a chance to 'chat' on Facebook with Judy before going to get my hair cut. I had met Judy R. on that trip, even though we had communicated via e-mail prior to meeting the first time at the Women's Leadership Conference. We spoke there in passing but really connected on the cruise a few days after the Conference. And the rest is history! The cruise, retracing the steps of St. Paul, was organized by Pastor Jim Humann from the Seattle area, with the majority of the group coming from the west coast area and the Midwest, and then, me! I traveled alone but met up with some of the gang at the airport in New York City. I told the Hulses last night about how my cab driver from the airport to the hotel in NYC clipped a bus with the side view mirror, but said, "That's not too bad" and kept right on going. He gave me a stern lecture about going to Turkey 'alone' but I assured him I would not be alone, others were meeting me and a group was going, but he was quite concerned for my safety. Except when he was driving, that is!
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Later in August of 2007, a group from church plus my sis-in-law, Nancy and sister, Lynn, flew to Seattle for a cruise. We were cruising to Alaska and the others had flown in from Jacksonville. We came from Milwaukee since I had been up there for my mom-in-law's funeral a week or so before the cruise. How do we get from the airport to our hotel???? We were going to meet Jim Humann, my host from the previous cruise for dinner, so they offered to come to the airport to pick the three of us and take us to the hotel. Nice!!! Jim's wife was a classmate of my sister, Kerry's, at MLHS, which was cool. So, I had spent time with Jim and Beth for over two weeks between NYC and the cruise, and now we met again in Seattle!
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Facebook has allowed me to stay in contact with many who were on that trip with me and the memories of that time together are so wonderful. This summer I am hoping to catch up with Vicki, Jim's daughter, who lives in Rhinelander either when I am up in WI or when she comes down here in July to see friends south of Orlando. Neither is exactly next door, but, like with the Hulses, we can make it work!
